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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10 -- A spokesman for Drydock Associates, representing the contractors building two big drydocks at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, said tonight that 348 carpenters who left their jobs yesterday would return tomorrow pending arbitration of their protest against a reduced Saturday overtime rate.
6 alleged leaders held in suspected mil coup; documents of pro-German groups seized; arms cache reptd
On Japanese threat to Thailand
Queen Elizabeth pays tribute to their courage
Warden J Dunn and 3 others slain in prison break; guard and 2 convicts wounded; illus; Dunn por
1941John Ellison, American-Canadian musician and songwriter[†]
John Ellison is an American/Canadian musician, best known for writing the song "Some Kind of Wonderful." He was born in Montgomery, West Virginia, and was raised in Landgraff, West Virginia, a small, poverty-stricken coal mining village near Welch, West Virginia, and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, receiving his Canadian citizenship in 2006.